LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lively Lady
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.17 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, it was learnt that the 22 foot Bermuda-rigged yacht Lively Lady was in difficulties three miles south of the life-boat house and was firing distress signals. The lifeboat Watkin Williams...
Content, of Sunderland
On the morning of the 12th December, the brig Content, of Sunderland, coal laden, struck on a sunken wreck near Sizewell Bank. Becoming very leaky, it was necessary to ran for the shore, ' when, hoisting a flag of distress, the Thorpe |...
Azores Packet, of Falmouth
On the 12th June, during a heavy gale of wind from N.N.W., with rain, the schooner Azores Packet, of Falmouth, stranded in making for the harbour at St. Ives. The life-boat of the Institution was quickly launched, and rescued her crew of 4...
None
The rescue of a swimmer and two earned the helmsman and crew of lifeguards who had gone to his aid has Sunderland's D class lifeboat and two shore helpers a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations.The incident began at...
Christiana Davies
On the 18th March, during a strong N.E. gale and a very heavy sea, the new Motor Life-boat John Taylor Cardwell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Christiana Davies, of Barrow. The vessel, whilst bound to Dublin with a cargo of...
Rosyth
Early on the morn- ing of the 26th April the steamer Rosyth, of Dundee, bound from Goole to Bou- logne with a cargo of coal, ran on to the Goodwin Sands E. by N. of the Brake light-vessel. The coastguard reported her, and the motor life-boat...
Evadne
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th May the life-boat station received information from the pierhead that flares had been seenfrom the lower end of the Nore Sands.
The sea was rough, with a fresh wind...
Northgate
COASTER AGROUND NEAR HARBOUR ENTRANCE Amble, Northumberland. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th February, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster had run aground at the harbour entrance.
The...
Hazel
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
Pagan
HAD BROKEN BOOM Later again on the same day, at 9.5 p.m., the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares about half a mile south of the Needles.
The tide was rising with a rough sea and strong...